Bent on Backsliding

God's Redeeming Love - Message 13 - Bent on Backsliding - Hosea 11:1-11

I. God’s Fatherly Love – vs. 1-4
A. God’s Electing Love (vs. 1a) – Deut 7:7-8; Rom 9:10-18; Isa 12:1; 40:1-2; 49:13; Jer 31:10-14
B. God’s Adopting Grace (vs. 1b) – Ex 4:22-23; Matt 2:15
C. Israel’s Rebellion (vs. 2)
D. God’s Nurturing Care (vs. 3-4)

II. God’s Consuming Justice – vs. 5-7 – Rom 1:21; Prov 14:14
A. Not Egypt, but Assyria
B. They Refused to Repent
C. Slash, Devour, Consume
D. Bent on Backsliding

III. God’s Question – “How Can I?” – vs. 8-9
A. How Can I Give You Up?
B. How Can I Hand You Over?
C. Stirred to Sympathy – justice is not void of mercy and compassion
D. Utterly Destroyed? No! For I am God, and not man. – Rom 3:21-26

IV. God’s Restoring Mercy – vs. 10-11
A. Roaring to Judge – Amos 1:2
B. Roaring to Protect – Joel 3:16
C. Regathered and Redeemed – Isaiah 43:1-7